City Models
Which urban model shows the wealthiest residences as radiating out from the core along high end commercial activities (the spines)?
Latin American City Model
In a simplified model of a city, the zone where retail and office activities are clustered is known as the...
Central Business District (CBD)
Many of the poor on the periphery of cities in less developed countries live in areas known as...
Squatter settlements
Cities with more than 10 million people are known as...
An economic theory that refers to how the price and demand on real estate changes as the distance towards the Central Business District (CBD) increases. is known as the...
Which model includes the formation of edge cities, which exist separately, but still interact with the urban center?
Galactic City Model
A process by which banks draw lines on a map and refuse to lend money to purchase or improve property within the boundaries is called...
Redlining
The process by which middle-class people move into deteriorated inner-city neighborhoods and renovate the housing is called...
Gentrification
Emerging cities are cities gaining in economic status and population and hence, gaining political clout in their respective regions. Currently, the majority of the world’s emerging cities are located on which continent?
Asia
European urban areas attack urban sprawl by designating rings of open space surrounding the cities called...
Greenbelts
Which model is built around old colonial port cities?
Southeast Asian City Model
Centers of economic, culture, and political activity that are strongly interconnected and together control the global systems of finance and commerce (examples include: New York City, London, Tokyo, Sydney, Buenos Aires...) are called...
Global Cities/World Cities
Contaminated/dilapidated industrial or commercial sites that may require environmental cleanup before they can be redeveloped or expanded are known as...
Brownfields
Nodes of economic activity that have developed in the periphery of large cities are known as...
Edge cities
What are 3 causes of suburbanization?
1. Easier to get home loan
2. Greater purchasing power for many families ($$)
3. Growth of car-centered lifestyle
4. New highways/ updated transportation
5. Levittowns
6. GI Bill
7. White flight/blockbusting
Which model indicated that a city develops around several separate nodes?
Multiple Nuclei City Model
The maximum distance people are willing to travel for a service is known as...
Range
The minimum number of people needed to support the service is known as...
Threshold
A theory that explains the distribution of services, based on the fact that settlements serve as centers of market areas for services; larger settlements are fewer and farther apart than smaller settlements and provide services for a larger number of people who are willing to travel farther is known as the...
Central Place Theory
Why does the African City Model have separate CBDs?
Europeans had a political and economic center in addition to the traditional market center in Africa.
Which model was developed in response to the Concentric Zone Model and shows the development of the city in a series of wedges?
Sector City Model
If a country's largest city has 1,000,000 inhabitants and the second largest city has 200,000 inhabitants, the country follows what distribution?
Primate city
According to the rank-size rule, if the largest city in a country has a population of 6 million, the next largest city will have a population of...
3 million
What is "New Urbanism"?
An urban planning movement invented to reduce sprawl, increase affordable housing, and create vibrant, livable neighborhoods--> largely walkable and mixed-use
People of one ethnic group, usually middle-class whites, would be frightened into selling their homes at low prices when they heard that a family of another group, usually African American or Hispanic, was moving into the neighborhood was known as...
Blockbusting